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1. Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: Andrew Frink <tr4@drooartz.com>; Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:57:32 -0600; The plug on the side of the tranny used for filling is a recessed square drive plug. How annoying. What size is this? It looked like a 3/8", but that didn't seem to work--slightly too big. I don't ha; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00019.html (8,116 bytes)
2. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: Geo Hahn <ahwahnee@cybertrails.com>; Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:22:22 -0700; Since it is not original it is impossible to say what size it is. Are you sure it is a recessed square drive? -- many recessed plugs have a hex drive. Geo Hahn; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00020.html (8,125 bytes)
3. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "THOMAS FANSHER" <tfansher@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:01:10 -0400; I replaced my square 7/16th "outie" with an 8 mm hex recessed one, you might try that if it is a hex head. Tom -- Original Message -- From: "Andrew Frink" <tr4@drooartz.com> To: "triumphs" <triumphs@; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00023.html (8,694 bytes)
4. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: Dave1massey@cs.com; Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:57:35 EDT; Sounds like the plug used in Austin Healeys. A friend of mine ground down a 3/8 ratchet wrench to fit. Dave; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00044.html (8,675 bytes)
5. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: Andrew Frink <tr4@drooartz.com>; Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:05:44 -0600; Turns out a 5/16" square drive was the ticket. A great local tool store even had one. Let's hear it for the little guy! Thing I am confused about is that the Moss catalog lists that the side check/fi; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00045.html (9,447 bytes)
6. RE: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:49:06 -0700; Uh oh, sounds like a DPO-ism. The fill plug on the side should be the same as the drain (except for early TR2-3 that had straight threads on the engine oil drain, and no fill plug on the side of the; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00048.html (8,836 bytes)
7. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: Andrew Frink <tr4@drooartz.com>; Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:10:46 -0600; What has me confused is that the engine drain plug that I have seems too *big* for the fill plug hole. I could understand if it were too small, in that a DPO could have tapped the hole out larger. Do; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00049.html (9,406 bytes)
8. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "Just Brits" <justbrits@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:09:16 -0500; <<A friend of mine ground down a 3/8 ratchet wrench to fit. I REALLY hope it was an extension for a 3/8" drive ratchet??? 1" and up???? Ed <VBG>; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00050.html (8,488 bytes)
9. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "Just Brits" <justbrits@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:31:11 -0500; <<What has me confused is that the engine drain plug that I have seems too *big* for the fill plug hole.>> "Easy", Drew<G>!! Actual "plug" is a tapered PIPE thread " object. Therefore and just like m; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00053.html (9,012 bytes)
10. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: Andrew Frink <tr4@drooartz.com>; Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:57:49 -0600; Ed -- That makes sense, though the extra "correct" drain plug I have only seems to thread in a turn or 2. I'll have to check it again this weekend and see if I was mistaken. Always possible!; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00054.html (9,202 bytes)
11. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: Dave1massey@cs.com; Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:03:45 EDT; Nope. It was a ratchet wrench. I say it. He ground the side opposite the detent ball and one of the other sides. Not real pretty but it works. And when it breaks, take it back to Sears for a replacem; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00064.html (9,326 bytes)
12. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "Just Brits" <justbrits@comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:01:00 -0500; <<And when it breaks, take it back to Sears for a replacement! :-^ BOY Dave!!!! YOU are SO behind times!!!!! <<And when it breaks, take it back to Sears for a replacement! :-^>> Replace??? NO Way!!!; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00070.html (9,229 bytes)
13. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "Rich White" <rlwhitetr3b@hotmail.com>; Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:12:49 -0500; It is called hole shrink. All good hardware stores have it next to the board stretchers. We once sent a high school kid on a three day search for some. Rich White St. Joseph, IL USA (who used to tea; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00072.html (9,196 bytes)
14. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "John Herrera" <jrherrera90@hotmail.com>; Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 11:46:38 -0400; I found some in the same aisle as the minus shims. John; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00081.html (9,248 bytes)
15. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "Just Brits" <justbrits@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 10:46:39 -0500; <<I found some in the same aisle as the minus shims.>> Where they next to the Omni Bearings???????????????? Enquiring minds NEED to know!!! <VBG> Ed; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00083.html (9,013 bytes)
16. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "John Herrera" <jrherrera90@hotmail.com>; Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 15:14:30 -0400; No, Ed, the Omni Bearings are in the aisle with the buckets of propwash and the rolls of flightline. John H.; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00086.html (9,326 bytes)
17. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: Dave1massey@cs.com; Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:04:14 EDT; Well, I was only kidding when I said that. Only a numbskull would grind on anything more than a Harbor Frieght wrench. Dave; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00087.html (9,544 bytes)
18. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 18:27:39 -0400; Well, today I spent an hour or so grinding on a 1" wrench obtained for $3 from a used tool store near my house, just so's I could swap the solenoid on my J-type OD. I guess I must jes't be a numbskul; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00093.html (9,175 bytes)
19. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "Just Brits" <justbrits@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:30:23 -0500; <<Only a numbskull would grind on anything more than a Harbor Frieght Crapsman = HF. Ed; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00096.html (8,555 bytes)
20. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "Just Brits" <justbrits@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:37:05 -0500; <<No, Ed, the Omni Bearings are in the aisle with the buckets of propwash and the rolls of flightline.>> Didn't know they had been "moved"!!!! Thank You!!!!! Ed; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00097.html (8,525 bytes)

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